Ask the headhunter
What are you doing to find your next job? Answering endless newspaper ads? Writing a catchy resume and cover letter? Perfecting effective interviewing skills? Well...stop! Now that corporate downsizing is a reality, you can no longer rely on conventional methods for winning your new job. Now more than ever qualified candidates are competing for coveted jobs. Can you afford to be left behind? Already being used by major corporations nationwide, Ask the Headhunter is a top headhunter's innovative guide to turning an interview into a hands-on meeting that showcases your expertise without gimmicks. It is the first guide to "the New Interview", a revolutionary, proactive approach to job hunting that reinvents the rules of the interview game in your favor. This unique and aggressive method will help you understand the changing hiring practices and show how you can prove your worth to a potential employer. In this groundbreaking book discover: which jobs are best for you, how to assess the employer's needs, how to take control of the interview to make the employer want to hire you, how to bargain for the best deal, and much more. Full of hard-hitting insider advice and chapter-by-chapter work sheets to help measure your job-winning progress, Ask the Headhunter is a must-have for professionals seeking lasting success in the new job market.
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- Couldn’t agree more.
A long time ago somebody recommended Nick Corcodilos‘ book, “Ask The Headhunter“, and it changed the way I thought about job hunting.
There’s a lot of great resouces on his site: https://www.asktheheadhunter.com
- Nick Corcodilos of Ask the Headhunter has good things to say about this, along with a lot of other stellar advice: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/
- Salary information is part of the negotiation for the job. Learn to negotiate and how to answer the question without answering the question.
Read "Ask The Headhunter's" articles/columns on salary negotiation for some background information.
If you say too large of number, you won't be hired. If you say too low of number, then you either leave $$$ on the table or they wonder why your number is low.
I've asked "are you offering me the job?" If they say no, then I ask if we can continue to see if I fit. This did not always work well.
Someone on HN posted the link to the Noel Smith-Wenkle method which is a better method and it works well, I've used it more than once effectively.
- The best advice I've seen on how to structure an interview came from Nick Corcodilos of Ask the Headhunter [1] fame, from his book Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job [2]. If you want to show someone you can do the job (or see if they can do the job), do the job, or as close as you can get to it in an interview setting. Anything will be selecting for indicators that will be more or less correlated with job performance.
[1] http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/articles.htm
[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452278015/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
- You say hiring is weighted against older generalists, but in your resume you call yourself a generalist on the second line and call yourself OldCoder everywhere. Maybe you aren't doing yourself any favors?
The best job hunting advice I ever read was from Nick Corcodilos' book Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job. The takeaway is that companies are trying to make money, and if you can demonstrate how you'll contribute to the bottom line, they'll have no choice to hire you. If the interview or recruiting process isn't giving you a chance to demonstrate that, then you need to restructure the interaction.
(Oldish coder.)
- Isn't it better to let a recruitment company do the hard work for you?
If you want to entrust your professional future to someone who doesn't understand the work you do and whose interests aren't necessarily aligned with yours, sure.
Recruiters aren't all bad - they can be one prong of your job-search strategy. (I just found a great startup job through a recruiter.) But don't put them in charge.
And read Ask The Headhunter.
